If she didn’t have a movie to promote it is highly unlikely Angelina Jolie would be sitting in a Beverly Hills hotel suite talking - albeit reluctantly - about her life since separating and filing for divorce from Brad Pitt last September.

But she is a show business veteran and the movie she co-wrote, produced and directed, the Cambodian-set drama First They Killed My Father, needs publicity. So she is submitting to a long weekend of interviews while admitting: “This is the first time I have done this for a long time. It’s not easy. I am a little shy this time, because I am not as strong inside as I have been in the past.”

Jolie directs on the set of First They Killed My FatherCredit:
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The last 12 months have clearly taken its toll on the 42-year-old actress, who is looking pale and gaunt.